The increasing ability to prepare systems with nanoscale resolution and address their optical properties with ultrashort time precision is revealing quantum phenomena with tremendous potentiality in quantum nanotechnologies. Colloidal plexcitonic materials promise to play a pivotal role in this scenario. Plexcitons are hybrid states originating from the mixing of the plasmon resonances of...
Timur O. Shegai
Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, 412 96, Sweden
Email: timurs@chalmers.se
Abstract:
Strong light-matter interactions are at the core of many electromagnetic phenomena. In this talk, I will give an overview of several nanophotonic systems which support polaritons – hybrid states of light and matter, as well as try to demonstrate...
The polaritonic optical response of molecules positioned in optical cavities is strongly influenced not only by the molecule-cavity modes coupling and the detuning between the photon and the emitter's transition frequency, but also by the spectral distribution of the molecular emitters (that outside the cavity determine the observed lineshape). While the effect of inhomogeneous broadening of...
The coupling of a system to more than one kind of environment is ubiquitous in nature. For example, in the field of polaritonic chemistry, where the interaction with confined light modifies the molecular reactivity, typically both an optical bath and a phononic bath are involved. In such cases, it is crucial to account for the interplay between these two different environments, which cannot be...
